"Yeah." That's...true. They're not alone. They have a lot of friends who have come to care about them, despite everything - despite the sins they've accrued, the faults they've committed, the crimes they've inflicted upon others. They've made friends who can stand to look at them.

They've lost friends, too. But that's the price of love.

...is that a question on her own behalf? The child's head tips to one side as they consider her, expression puckering as they contemplate that.

"Like you?"